[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.8

I have uploaded mintty 2.7.8 with the following changes: Font rendering * Support for alternative fonts as selected via ECMA-48 SGR codes 11...19. * Tweaked ambiguous width checking to not expand glyphs excessively (#615). Terminal features * SGR 6 attribute "rapidly blinking" (ECMA-48)

Re: git-2.12.3-1: Cannot push to a remote with a Windows network path URL

Thanks for the quick response :) $ git remote -vv origin file:network/path/to/git-repository (fetch) origin file:network/path/to/git-repository (push) > Your URL is invalid. > Try file://network/path/to/git-repository $ git remote add testing file://network/path/to/git-r

Re: Compiled programs fail to run from Cygwin Terminal, but work from windows cmd

Hi Andrey, That looked really promising, as that whole rebasing stuff was something I'd never heard about. Unfortunately, it did not lead to anything; all my self-compiled tools still do exactly nothing. Apologies about the top-posting; I had missed that rule. Wouter -- Problem reports: ht

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.8.1-0.1

On 2017-06-23 12:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 23 19:52, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> On 22/06/2017 15:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.8.1-0.1 >>> I'm planning for a release next week. Please test. >> $ /etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh >> Can't find directory

Re: rxvt won't stay running

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 03:31:05PM +0100, Jon Turney wrote: > See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-03/msg00100.html Thanks. > To be clear: rxvt still works as an X terminal (although if you have need > of such a thing, I'd strongly suggest you stop using rxvt and instead use > somethin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.8.1-0.1

On Jun 23 19:52, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 22/06/2017 15:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.8.1-0.1 > > > > I'm planning for a release next week. Please test. > > > > $ /etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh > Can't find directory '/usr/share/d

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.8.1-0.1

On 22/06/2017 15:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.8.1-0.1 I'm planning for a release next week. Please test. $ /etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh Can't find directory '/usr/share/doc/cygwin-2.8.1' $ ls /usr/share/doc |grep cygwin cygwin-doc cygwin-

[ANNOUNCEMENT] tigervnc 1.8.0-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * tigervnc-1.8.0-1 * tigervnc-server-1.8.0-1 * tigervnc-server-module-1.8.0-1 TigerVNC is a high-performance implementation of VNC, a client/server application that allows users to launch and interact with graphical applicati

[ANNOUNCEMENT] fltk 1.3.4-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * fluid-1.3.4-1 * libfltk1.3-1.3.4-1 * libfltk-devel-1.3.4-1 * mingw64-i686-fltk-1.3.4-1 * mingw64-x86_64-fltk-1.3.4-1 FLTK (pronounced 'fulltick') is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] gimp 2.8.22-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * gimp-2.8.22-1 * gimp-devel-2.8.22-1 * gimp-doc-2.8.22-1 * gimp-python-2.8.22-1 The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is used to edit and manipulate images. It can load and save a variety of image formats and can

[ANNOUNCEMENT] babl 0.1.28-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libbabl0.1_0-0.1.28-1 * libbabl-devel-0.1.28-1 * mingw64-i686-babl0.1-0.1.28-1 * mingw64-x86_64-babl0.1-0.1.28-1 Babl is a dynamic, any to any, pixel format conversion library. It provides conversions between the myriad of b

[ANNOUNCEMENT] xterm 330-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * xterm-330-1 The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly. This version implements ISO

Re: Starting a xterm window

On 09/06/2017 11:14, Ugly Leper wrote: /usr/bin/xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0 /usr/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set Thanks for all suggestions. Both the following fragments seem to work flawlessly. Both incorporate a waiting time for XWin to gain traction before xterm is called: 1. St

Re: rxvt won't stay running

On 22/06/2017 21:00, Mike Brown wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 09:12:45AM -0500, Ren?? Berber wrote: On 6/22/2017 4:45 AM, Mike Brown wrote: I've installed the latest (as of this writing) Cygwin base and a few other packages. [snip] Any ideas why it is failing? Something you need me to look

Re: XWIN

On 21/06/2017 13:08, wassermann wrote: Dear colleagues, My XWin Server window is not starting properly anymore. In previous versions this problem happened sometimes but after certain time the window appeared. After my latest update today the XWin Server window is not appearing at all. It is on

Re: X: wglMakeCurrent error: 0006 on XUnmapWindow->XMapWindow

On 20/06/2017 14:24, Mick Pearson wrote: I was asked by the freeglut mailing list to alert the X/Cygwin team to problems with the WGL context handles becoming invalid "team"... :hollow laughter: Thanks for reporting this issue. A link to the relevant post in the freeglut list archives, e.g. [

Re: git-2.12.3-1: Cannot push to a remote with a Windows network path URL

Greetings, Jonathan Chan! > After updating to git-2.12.3-1, I have been unable to push to a remote > with a Windows network path URL: > $ git push origin > Counting objects: 3, done. > Delta compression using up to 4 threads. > Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done. > Writing o

Starting xterm after XWin : sporadic error

After this in a Windows Command Prompt box: @bin\run bin\XWin -clipboard -nolock -multiwindow 2>nul @bin\xterm -display :0.0 I have been getting this rather frequently 1 [main] xterm 5400 child_info_fork::abort: \bin\cygX11-6.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x50) != child(0x49)